ms> It seems to me the Right Way to do this is to just set ms> `source-directory' in your .emacs. ms> The situation that the user of XEmacs has access to the ms> sources it was compiled it is too rare, I think, to make ms> special provisions to cater to it. I have access to the sources on all three administrations (mine and two University nets) on which XEmacs is available. However, in one case I know that the sources are incorrect, because the running version is 20.3 and the sources are 20.4 :-( In general, variables like `source-directory' should be the user's responsibility, as the XEmacs binary cannot make any guarantees about what might be lurking in that directory, even if it used to be the right directory. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +1 (298) 53-5091